Ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s energy adviser Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury was arrested in the capital’s Gulshan area on Tuesday night.

Confirming the matter to New Age, Dhaka Metropolitan Police additional deputy commissioner for media and public relations Obaidur Rahman Shamim said that the DMP’s detective branch arrested him from the Gulshan area at about 9:45pm.

‘Several cases were filed against him. We are yet to sure that he was arrested in which case,’ Shamim added.